McLario, Helm & Bertling - Milwaukee Disability Planning Attorneys

If you're concerned that an accident or serious illness might rob you of the capacity to make sound decisions concerning either the management of your financial affairs or control of your own health care decisions, contact a Wisconsin disability planning attorney at McLario, Helm & Bertling in Menomonee Falls. Our long-term care lawyers can advise you about the preparation or amendment of advance directives that can protect your interests and document your preferences with respect to:

• Ending extraordinary efforts to preserve your life in the final stages of terminal illness or persistent vegetative state
• Designation of a trusted person to direct your medical treatment during a period of incapacity, such as unconsciousness, coma, or severe neurodegenerative disease
• Designation of a trusted person - often a different individual - to manage your bank accounts, financial decisions, and business affairs during a similar period of incapacity

We can prepare the instruments - declaration to physicians (or living will), power of attorney for health care, and power of attorney for finance and property - that will make your wishes explicit with respect to your health care and financial needs. If you wish to direct an agent to manage either your health or financial matters with certain preferences or principles in mind, we can make sure that your advance directives reflect those objectives as well.

We also prepare trust instruments, guardianship petitions, and conservatorship petitions to protect loved ones who are no longer capable of managing their own affairs. Our Wisconsin disability planning lawyers can also prepare a special needs trust to assure the continued care of a developmentally disabled adult child in your family.

For more information about the scope of our disability planning services, contact a Wisconsin estate planning attorney at McLario, Helm & Bertling.